Chinese migrants abroad [[electronic resource] ] : cultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora / / editors Michael W. Charney, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong

• Pubblicazione: Singapore, : Singapore University Press; River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.80951
• Soggetto topico: Chinese - Foreign countries - Social conditions; Chinese - Legal status, laws, etc
• Altri autori: CharneyMichael W YeohBrenda S. A TongChee Kiong
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-277).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables: List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Chinese Abroad; Part One. Chineseness and ""Overseas"" Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community ; 1 Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences 2 Providers Protectors Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities; 3 Tasting the Night: Food Ethnic Transaction and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia ; 4 Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong Part Two. Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education ; 5 Chinese Education and Changing National and 85 Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chuka Dobun Gakko [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe ; 6 Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools 7 Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya 1904-1941; 8 The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education ; Part Three. Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society
• Sommario/riassunto: Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960's until the mid-1990's brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention. The study of the overseas Chinese has
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese migrants abroad
• ISBN: 1-281-93591-3; 9786611935917; 981-279-556-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822788903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II